The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

It should’ve been the best thing in the world to see him suffer, but it had been the worst thing in the world to see him suffer

That was the thing with Fairhrim: you had to choose your words wisely, because she would catch them and fling them back at you, sharper than before.

They slipped a bit over the boundary between enmity and partnership then, into a new place of uncertainty.

The gap must remain. The threshold must not be crossed. That was what they were doomed to: standing upon a threshold. On the verge and only ever on the verge. An almost.

“I saw your library.”

“Which one?”

A question that left Aurienne mildly stunned. “You’ve got…more than one?”

“Haven’t you?”

There was a lovely irony to their respective wayfinding: her light created a blind spot for him, and his shadows were inscrutable darkness to her

From OE weg, “road, path; freedom of movement,” + stone. Waystones are tall, rune-engraved menhirs placed along a network of ley lines called the waystone graticule

The Tīendoms
From OE tīen, “ten,” + dōm, “jurisdiction.” The collective name for ten petty kingdoms vying for control of an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean

Tācn
From OE tācn, “sign, symbol, evidence.” A brand seared into the palms of full members of a given Order. The branding mechanism opens their seith system to the world and allows exponentially greater flow and manipulation of seith.

Deofol
From Old English (OE) dēofol, “devil.”